Author Topic: Military Use of Rifles in the Revolutionary War  (Read 83180 times)

Bob Smalser

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Re: Military Use of Rifles in the Revolutionary War
« Reply #150 on: May 30, 2011, 03:35:48 PM »
... but have yall talked about the Maryland and Virginia Rifle Regiment aka Rawlings Regiment?  Longest serving Rifle regiment of the war.  Decimated at Ft Washington, but reconstitued and sent west to garrison Ft Pitt and the western posts.


Was this one of the 1775 or 1776 regiments?

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Pennsylvania raised nine companies of true frontier riflemen in 1775; Maryland two, and Virginia two, with strengths ranging from 60 to 90 men each.  These included Thompson's Regiment from Pennsylvania and Morgan's Riflemen from Virginia.  Then in early 1776, Pennsylvania raised an additional 12 companies of 72 or more riflemen each under Colonel Samuel Miles, and Virginia and Maryland six more under Colonel Hugh Stevenson.

Offline Luke MacGillie

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Re: Military Use of Rifles in the Revolutionary War
« Reply #151 on: May 30, 2011, 04:29:33 PM »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_and_Virginia_Rifle_Regiment

This is Stevenson's unit, renamed Rawling's Regiment, but sometimes still called Stevenson's as that is how the members of the unit involved around Ft Laurens are recorded.  Confusing as all get out.....


Bob Smalser

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Re: Military Use of Rifles in the Revolutionary War
« Reply #152 on: May 30, 2011, 05:10:09 PM »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_and_Virginia_Rifle_Regiment

This is Stevenson's unit, renamed Rawling's Regiment, but sometimes still called Stevenson's as that is how the members of the unit involved around Ft Laurens are recorded.  Confusing as all get out.....


Got it.

William Nester's 2004 book,  The Frontier War for American Independence, covers the western department under Brodhead and Hand quite well.

http://www.amazon.com/Frontier-Amer-Independ-William-Nester/dp/0811700771